Sardine
Sardine is a Fraud Prevention & Risk Signals company founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $145.6M in total funding, most recently a Series C in 2025.
Founded in 2020 by Soups Ranjan, Sardine builds an AI risk platform that bundles fraud prevention, KYC/KYB/AML compliance, and identity verification for fintechs, banks, and crypto companies. Its detection stack combines device intelligence and behavioral biometrics with transaction monitoring, and the company has pushed into agentic AI for fraud and compliance investigation. Sardine raised a $70M Series C led by Activant Capital in 2025, and is backed by strategics including Visa, Experian, and FIS, bringing total disclosed funding to roughly $145.6M.
Sardine packages device, behavioral, and identity signals into a single risk layer that lets fintechs settle payments faster while controlling fraud and compliance exposure.
sardine.ai ↗·Fraud Prevention & Risk Signals·
United States·private 
